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20151230
Why time is not an illusion
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GB writes: "...I understand why regressive physicists consider time to be a dimension - they could not be hired if they thought otherwise."
ReplyDeleteThat may be true today, but the original advocates simply observed that length, time, and motion could be *quantified* by reference to a standard unit. I think that was an important development in the pursuit of all forms of scientific investigation. Their fault, as you've pointed out, was to reify their "measure by relative comparison" as though the units themselves were objective physical objects.
It is obvious that the only illusion concerning time is in the holding of erroneous concepts of time, not in the reality of the occurrence of time. Just as matter can not exist without being in motion, the occurrence of motion requires the existence of what is included in the category referred to as “matter”. As time is motion itself, this leads to the realization that time can not occur without matter, and for matter to exist,time needs to be occurring.The two are completely inseparable.
ReplyDeleteIt is impossible for matter to not exist, therefore it has no beginning or end. This means that time is also infinite because it always occurs where matter exists.
Glenn, you are one of the few who get it. Time is motion. Objects without motion are a static picture, and have no time. The block universe is nonsense. It implies that we have no free will and all things have no motion and thus no time. The block universe is like looking at a movie on a DVD, it is all there and already happened (filmed) and nothing within it can change. Einstein makes no sense to me. The twins paradox, time dilation, block universe are philosophical nonsense.
ReplyDeleteDear Anon:
ReplyDeleteAgree totally except for the pro-free will part. In science there causes for all effects. I must admit that you got me to look up the meaning of "block universe": "According to the growing block universe theory of time (or the growing block view), the past and present exist and the future does not exist. The present is an objective property, to be compared with a moving spotlight." Maybe that is what one relativist meant when he said that I did not exist, but that the event of my birth did exist. It seems that regressive beliefs are getting nuttier all the time.